{"id":8894,"date":"2024-12-28T19:30:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T01:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/?p=8894"},"modified":"2024-12-28T19:30:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T01:30:39","slug":"guest-opinion-america-needs-a-national-health-care-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2024\/12\/28\/guest-opinion-america-needs-a-national-health-care-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Opinion: America Needs A National Health Care System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thom Hartmann describes how Americans pay more for less when it comes to healthcare.\u00a0 The cost of healthcare is a continuing challenge to better pay and benefits for American workers.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/hartmannreport.com\/p\/america-needs-a-national-healthcare?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=android&amp;r=1tj0n9&amp;triedRedirect=true\">America Need a National Health Care System<\/a> explains&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Most Americans have no idea that the United States is quite literally the\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong>only<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0country in the developed world that doesn\u2019t define healthcare as an absolute right for all of its citizens. That\u2019s it. We\u2019re the only one left.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The United States spends more on \u201chealthcare\u201d than any other country in the world:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/268826\/health-expenditure-as-gdp-percentage-in-oecd-countries\/\" rel=\"\">about 17% of GDP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland, Germany, France, Sweden and Japan all average around 11%, and Canada, Denmark, Belgium, Austria, Norway, Netherlands, United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/268826\/health-expenditure-as-gdp-percentage-in-oecd-countries\/\" rel=\"\">all come in between 9.3% and 10.5%<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Health insurance premiums right now make up about 22% of all taxable payroll, whereas\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hidden-History-American-Healthcare-Bankrupts\/dp\/1523091630\/ref=thomhartmann\" rel=\"\">Medicare For All would run an estimated 10%<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That 12% between current health insurance cost and Medicare For All could be used for higher pay, more VR days, better dental and vision, or even paid lunch.\u00a0 What would you want with that extra 12 percent?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pix4free.org\/assets\/library\/2021-01-19\/originals\/healthcare_reform.jpg\" alt=\"Free of Charge Creative Commons healthcare reform Image - Highway Signs 3\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Graphic by Pix4Free.org)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thom Hartmann describes how Americans pay more for less when it comes to healthcare.\u00a0 The cost of healthcare is a continuing challenge to better pay and benefits for American workers.\u00a0 America Need a National Health Care System explains&#8230; Most Americans have no idea that the United States is quite literally the\u00a0only\u00a0country in the developed world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16,22,17],"tags":[1065,1064],"class_list":["post-8894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gm-plant-news","category-labor-laws","category-labor-news","category-union-contracts","tag-single-payer-healthcare","tag-universal-health-care"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8895,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8894\/revisions\/8895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}